Apparatus for simultaneously generating a fluid flow and heating the flowing fluid
AssigneeUsui Kokusai Sangyo Kaisha Limited
InventorsMasayoshi Usui, Hiroshi Inoue
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Abstract
An apparatus is provided for simultaneously generating a fluid flow and heating the flowing fluid. The apparatus includes a conductive material provided on at least a part of a member which is rotated. The rotatable member generates the flow of the fluid to be heated. Magnets are opposed to one side of the conductive material with a slight gap and are mounted within a casing for the rotatable member. Fluid flows through the casing and is heated due to a slip heat energy generated by rotating the conductive material relative to the magnet.
Claims6
An apparatus for generating a fluid flow and for simultaneously heating the fluid, said apparatus comprising:
- a casing having opposed front and rear walls, the rear wall having a permanent magnet securely mounted therein, the front wall having no magnet and having a fluid inlet formed therein, a rotatable member disposed between the front and rear walls of the casing, the rotatable member including a conductive material spaced slightly from the permanent magnet in the rear wall, the rotatable member being rotatable relative to the casing and being configured for generating a fluid flow through the inlet in the front wall in response to such rotation, and a drive means for rotatably driving the rotatable member relative to the housing and thereby generating movement of the conductive material relative to the permanent magnet, whereby rotation of the rotatable member relative to the housing generates a fluid flow through the inlet and into the housing and whereby slip heat generated by relative movement between the conductive material and the permanent magnet in the rear wall of the casing heats the fluid flowing into the casing by the rotation of the rotatable member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.